MS but huge efforts into wiping out all that office tools knowhow in the past decade and now it is debatable how much you can trust that they don't try to do it again.
the thing is, MS had good solid experts on refining the basic rules of interaction, double click to select a word in the early '90s, how the windows behaved and so forth, including what was interactable - even switch to having a taskbar and a button labeled as Start needed no new basic training. all the features of the text editor you knew where to find - the applications came with solid built in help tools - and the interaction remained the same for advanced users.
they have dialed it back a little bit with windows 10 compared to windows 8, which was so bad that it made necessary in the first time since 1990 to retrain office personnel for a new operating system in the companies that were too stupid to upgrade to it(it offering no benefits to any business users over windows 7).
currently microsoft throws still that out good research with windows 10 install procedure even - clearly separate paths are not marked as clearly separate paths but instead another is just a word and another is clearly marked as a button(the purpose is to increase the number of people creating new online ms accounts, which is not necessary to use windows 10 but they do make an effort to _not_ be clear about that).
add all the walking backs on having all the applications friendly for font size choosing and all that to the mix with metro apps, the dialed back enterprise control functionality, the options that are supposed to shut down call home, the random upgrades/updates that can do all kinds of breakage and well... the ms option has to be goddamned cheap to be cheaper actually and a lot less predictable in expenses. you cannot know when they decide to switch off support for old hardware and roll out the upgrade on exactly that hardware they no longer support.
they're so good that there's an extra option in android to mark wtf is actually a button area.
at least now I know why presented to the user android features have been going downhill while some technical aspects have gone a lot better. also the look is stupid now and things take more presses/swipes to do and user is bombarded with popups - and user protection features had not been tested in common use cases by actual common people.
google added this feature where if theres an UI overlay you cannot approve of permissions for an app - and the approve permission screen gets dismissed if you turn off the app. this is a problem because using the fb faces for example makes it so that if an app wants a permission you want to give to it.. you have to first close that fb face. that is easily done just 1 swipe, but it means that you need to find again in the app the permission trigger to grant it, or dive into the menus to grant it, because the screen to grant it is already gone if you close the offending app.
why this is stupid? the decision to make it was made by a stupid person because the permission granting dialog should be a separate screen that other ui overlay apps cannot overtake. and fyi they didn't immediately see it as a problem when they rolled it out as a nerfed feature to approve/disapprove per app.
look, the basic idea is just the same as why windows goes to that separate screen to allow admin rights for an application. should just have copied that. technically they could have. very easily. they control the window manager which controls the overlay applications.
the bad fucking thing about this is that i have to listen some exec dolt talk about how they got some new whizwhiz wweewee guru now at gooooooooogle and how they're good at design now at gooooogle and how we should do everything like them...
how do you know an experienced android developer from a newbie? a newbie will argue that something should be done in some way because google tells to do it in that way. an experienced one knows that google also tells to do it the other way and also sometimes says that don't do it the old way without telling the new way. also a slightly experienced one will know that some of googles class wrappers are longer than just writing to use the classes directly anyways while there isn't any kind of a functional difference.
really credit systems in general are the problem. they don't care if they get the identity wrong because the credit goes against the real person and not the fraudster.
"The only thing wrong with Musks predictions is that he sometimes delivers late."
I don't think you have been reading the same hype shit. there's quite a bit more wrong with them.
anyways.. who the fuck cares about for example him sending batteries to areas hit by the hurricane when what they ACTUALLY WANT is GASOLINE and aggregators. you know, because they contain electricity for a fuck ton lot more of time than elons batteries AND they're cheaper.
nobody gives a fuck. it's just shadytalk to cover up for that he again has failed to produce his products at a profitable selling price.
look, if they insist on using specific speed test then it's likely they don't throttle that one AND that they got their transparent proxy tweaked for it.
really it's no use complaining with them, switch the provider if you can.
they only will guarantee the last link speed, which is pretty useless.
you can use hydrogen in a combustion engine. it just happens to be stupid so nobody does it.
I got a laugh out of "if china can do this" though. hahaha. a big laugh.
LOOK, if you cut everybodys income to 1/10th of what it is now in california and give them practically free electricity then sure, people will buy electric scooters to replace their cars.
also, anyone in china who can afford it buys a car, duh.
never mind that the typical daily commutes are way shorter in china, due to various reasons(mainly people not being able to afford cars in the first place).
you know whats actually amazing? they created a system, with a limit of 140 characters, got huge numbers of users but running their system was still more expensive than what they could profit from the users - this despite the complexity of the system being simple as can get compared to contemporary facebook.
oh and if you're outside of usa and are wondering why the 140 character limit in the first place? well, twitter was originally like a one-liner webpage plugin, which was coded terribly but had a good amount of highly visible seed bloggers to start using it - but the limit came from that you could order tweets to your phone delivered via sms.
which was possible because USA had/has a system where you pay for received SMS so sending them was free for twitter - in most of the world sender pays for spam and receiving sms messages had always been free. this was in a timeframe where you could actually get instant messaging for few bucks a month already if you were living in europe(through gprs) too.
I say it was coded like shit because otherwise they would have been in profit from year 2 from all the webtraffic(and ads made possible by said webtraffic). also them spending money on useless marketing people and useless executives has had an effect on their poor profits vs. spent money. now the reason why it's all so ridiculous is that they had a fixed size limit on messages which was tiny - the server costs should have been miniscule but they weren't.
well if theres enough of an explosion of ID theft that makes their credit rating service useless.
I mean more useless, since those companies don't check that the debt exists anyways or that there's anybody with paperwork to back the debt up anyways.
in some places where it makes sense, people use small helicopters regularly(australia). even for herding cattle.
the real question to ask is when will the world get tired of dolts speaking about stuff that people have been speaking for 60+ years.
like.. singularity. it's been a theme in scifi since the forties.
do we have it? haha no and we don't even have a path to it. doesn't stop a lot of people making their entire living by talking about it. it's easy to sound smart if there's nothing discussed.
basically.. the way hyperspace(used to) works in star wars is that you can't hyperspace through/into/near high mass objects like planets, suns and whatever. this makes it so that hyperspacing isn't simply a teleportation device, which would negate any usefulness of superweapons, large carriers, interdictors and whatever. you see back in the late 70's or 80's someone put some thought into this, unlike abrams.
okay.. ep1) the siege of naboo becomes irrelevant as you can just bypass it.
ep2 and ep3). okay.. these not so much, but their plotline is a continuation - and again, the nature of warfare would be drastically different if the hyperspace rules were changed.
ep4) might just as well have hyperspaced some bombs into either inside deathstar or on surface of the superweapon side. basically the whole concept of such a superweapon becomes obsolete.
ep5) the planetary shields would have been irrelevant, might just as well have hyperspaced into inside them.
ep6) might just as well have hyperspaced something into inside of deathstar 2.
ep7) might just as well have nuked the planet (transfer the nuke through hyperspace). also, prior to this, there are no "beams of whatever" shot through the space at ftl speeds at arbitrary distances. I mean, where the f is this secret moonbase? are _all_ the planets in ep7 in the _same_ solar system? just like earth is in the same system with klingon homeworld? I mean just how much more can the guy f up. it's like he is making parodies.
in r1 as well though, there is no distance. which is a problem with ALL abrams movies. he changes the scripts so that the distances make no sense at all and that there is no travel time to anywhere.
well if they were smart how did they know they were cheating?
of course, maybe cheating is "smart", even if it happens just by bribing the teacher. that's what a lot of asians believe anyways. they believe that the paper and the status from graduation is what matters. and for some, it is like that - they would do very well though if they just learned the stuff, but since their professors didn't take that route how could they?
however he/she who sold it should have been suspicious about selling it in the first place. why would you need to buy open source software? you wouldn't. what he was buying was the install base.
jj abrams however now has fucked plot sensibilities by screwing over several plot devices(by just being plain fucking stupid and inept at writing a plotline to fit the action he wants that wouldn't piss over everything) of TWO franchises.
he did it to star trek, he did it to star wars. and for those of not understanding what I'm talking about... force awakens provides a way to use hyperspace in a way that makes plotlines of pretty much all of the previous star wars movies irrelevant - and even force awakens itself!
the star trek reboot is full of gadgets that make the plotlines stupid, the traveltimes make NO SENSE at all and so forth. klingon homeworld is now literally 1 second or 15 minutes away, depending on your chosen mode of transportation. even fucking Q made more sense.
well they need the surprise element so that even fanbois are reminded that the features already exist.
if it is already discussed in the media that the features exist, then the journalists have harder time putting up headlines like apple does it again or something.
really though, you can't tell the difference between iphone 6 and whatever their latest thing is.. like if you look at someone using it. it looks the same. nobody cares if it's the newest or not. thats the problem.
apple is already at a place where they need an actual low range phone and they don't want to do that, instead they sell 3 year old models with no future sw support as the low end phones.. that's not gonna cut it.
baseball has dedicated guys to do everything already.. they should just have mandatory rotation during the play.
and one could argue that the original rules of the game are stupid to begin with, because it leads to specialized pitchers, stupid hidden hand signals and all that. might just as well have the two guys talk over bluetooth really.
and that the hit percentages are so bad is also just a sign of the rules being pretty bad to begin with. Finnish baseball makes for a slightly more interesting game from a game perspective, but that one is pretty bad too, but does have less specialization and calling due to the pitching being straight up basically and therefore no catcher being necessary - and the pitcher can, and needs to, observe the field for what the runners are doing.
look, if you pay salaries and benefits you are in fact running a for-profit organization that has made it's job/profit center to publish that stuff.
since your and your underlings salaries can be just any sum you deem, it is quite useless to talk about any sum since you just deemed the cost of publishing to be any sum you want it to be, which is basically as much money as you can possibly get from everyone involved, which is then divvied up as salaries - so no matter how much you got sponsorship you would still need to ask more money.
so with that logic you could ask 10 dollars per article view or 10 000 dollars. it doesn't really matter - all of that money would still go into your organizations pockets as salaries.
publishing the stuff you want to publish is in fact very cheap. what you are arguing is that the process of deciding what to publish is not cheap, mainly because you need to oversee it and straight up pay money to people to review the papers, instead of finding people to review them for honor points or people who are already employed at universities just to review such stuff.
that you even mention hosting leads just to believe that you do that with someone who is also profiting from the affair, since the actual cost is tiny compared to even flight ticket for any attendee to the conference - and surely you have some sponsors or are asking attendees some money? note that cost of hosting goes up drastically if you need to pay some outsider to run a webshop to purchase your papers.
but here comes the real kicker, do you ask money from the people who want their papers published or from the people who want to read them? or both? I'm pretty sure that you should already know that the organization in spotlight of this article does both and the aim is to extract as much profit as possible, not to act on cost by any means.
you could do it cheaper of course, but that would mean someone losing their salary. maybe the janitor as the first one,
Elsevier is a huge profit center, don't kid yourself about it. it generates straight up profit and pays ridiculous salaries for jobs that could be done cheaper - and you, you're just working your way up to there.
the bigger problem in science community in general is that having it published in a "prestigious" journal is more important than what the paper itself has. literally 99.99% useless - even the published stuff. this is just result of the institutional fetish of publishing stuff even if you have in fact found or figured out nothing new and the result of the work would be much more useful to the world in general formatted differently as a post on blogspot, instead the 1 sentence of useful information is buried in 4 pages of paperspeak.
I mean, HYPERTEXT was arguably MADE for such texts and referenced information, to easily check out the referenced texts. so why is the scientific community still insisting that the system of publishing papers is good? because it provides the perfect circle jerk admittance?
I think the "logic" is that they own it as they had some "experts" check it(for a cheque)..
I would be more worried about this "it restrains "any Internet search engines, web hosting and Internet service providers, domain name registrars, and domain name registries, to cease facilitating access to any or all domain names and websites through which Defendant Sci-Hub engages in unlawful access to [ACS's works]." ".
are they making a blocklist now for USA? or are they going to enforce it on.com registry? or whatf the fuck - and would this be something to be quoted in the future.
the real way how those spam companies track, and how some even pay out, is by tracking purchases/conversion. no conversion = it is as if it didn't exist.
anyways, you can create false clicks but they wouldn't matter to anybody.
this same thing happens naturally as well, the price of the ads being determined by the value they give for the advertisers, the ads will just be cheaper to run per click in the same proportion there are fake clicks. it doesn't solve the problem that people are stupid enough to sign up to something, install something or to buy something advertised in such a way.
the real wonder is sites that have ACTUAL content but still put on so much ads that nobody comes back again or that are impossible(really) to browse without adblock as the ads forward the page to some stupid ad in 5 secs.
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I seriously doubt that nobody has ever converted it by hand into electronic form.
on top of that, they could have found someone to do it for them.
however serving 60 000 copies of some megabytes is really easy.
MS but huge efforts into wiping out all that office tools knowhow in the past decade and now it is debatable how much you can trust that they don't try to do it again.
the thing is, MS had good solid experts on refining the basic rules of interaction, double click to select a word in the early '90s, how the windows behaved and so forth, including what was interactable - even switch to having a taskbar and a button labeled as Start needed no new basic training. all the features of the text editor you knew where to find - the applications came with solid built in help tools - and the interaction remained the same for advanced users.
they have dialed it back a little bit with windows 10 compared to windows 8, which was so bad that it made necessary in the first time since 1990 to retrain office personnel for a new operating system in the companies that were too stupid to upgrade to it(it offering no benefits to any business users over windows 7).
currently microsoft throws still that out good research with windows 10 install procedure even - clearly separate paths are not marked as clearly separate paths but instead another is just a word and another is clearly marked as a button(the purpose is to increase the number of people creating new online ms accounts, which is not necessary to use windows 10 but they do make an effort to _not_ be clear about that).
add all the walking backs on having all the applications friendly for font size choosing and all that to the mix with metro apps, the dialed back enterprise control functionality, the options that are supposed to shut down call home, the random upgrades/updates that can do all kinds of breakage and well... the ms option has to be goddamned cheap to be cheaper actually and a lot less predictable in expenses. you cannot know when they decide to switch off support for old hardware and roll out the upgrade on exactly that hardware they no longer support.
they're so good that there's an extra option in android to mark wtf is actually a button area.
at least now I know why presented to the user android features have been going downhill while some technical aspects have gone a lot better. also the look is stupid now and things take more presses/swipes to do and user is bombarded with popups - and user protection features had not been tested in common use cases by actual common people.
google added this feature where if theres an UI overlay you cannot approve of permissions for an app - and the approve permission screen gets dismissed if you turn off the app. this is a problem because using the fb faces for example makes it so that if an app wants a permission you want to give to it.. you have to first close that fb face. that is easily done just 1 swipe, but it means that you need to find again in the app the permission trigger to grant it, or dive into the menus to grant it, because the screen to grant it is already gone if you close the offending app.
why this is stupid? the decision to make it was made by a stupid person because the permission granting dialog should be a separate screen that other ui overlay apps cannot overtake. and fyi they didn't immediately see it as a problem when they rolled it out as a nerfed feature to approve/disapprove per app.
look, the basic idea is just the same as why windows goes to that separate screen to allow admin rights for an application. should just have copied that. technically they could have. very easily. they control the window manager which controls the overlay applications.
the bad fucking thing about this is that i have to listen some exec dolt talk about how they got some new whizwhiz wweewee guru now at gooooooooogle and how they're good at design now at gooooogle and how we should do everything like them...
how do you know an experienced android developer from a newbie? a newbie will argue that something should be done in some way because google tells to do it in that way. an experienced one knows that google also tells to do it the other way and also sometimes says that don't do it the old way without telling the new way. also a slightly experienced one will know that some of googles class wrappers are longer than just writing to use the classes directly anyways while there isn't any kind of a functional difference.
that solution exists, but it has it's problems.
really credit systems in general are the problem. they don't care if they get the identity wrong because the credit goes against the real person and not the fraudster.
"The only thing wrong with Musks predictions is that he sometimes delivers late."
I don't think you have been reading the same hype shit.
there's quite a bit more wrong with them.
anyways.. who the fuck cares about for example him sending batteries to areas hit by the hurricane when what they ACTUALLY WANT is GASOLINE and aggregators. you know, because they contain electricity for a fuck ton lot more of time than elons batteries AND they're cheaper.
nobody gives a fuck. it's just shadytalk to cover up for that he again has failed to produce his products at a profitable selling price.
look, if they insist on using specific speed test then it's likely they don't throttle that one AND that they got their transparent proxy tweaked for it.
really it's no use complaining with them, switch the provider if you can.
they only will guarantee the last link speed, which is pretty useless.
android has this option built in... basically any new android phones should have it unless operator or someone does something to disable it.
if you're not using their wifi then though.. why keep it even on or connect to them or have it advertise it's existence.
whats more weird about getting a fit about this is that uh dude, they already have data about where you got on and got off the tube.
you can use hydrogen in a combustion engine.
it just happens to be stupid so nobody does it.
I got a laugh out of "if china can do this" though. hahaha. a big laugh.
LOOK, if you cut everybodys income to 1/10th of what it is now in california and give them practically free electricity then sure, people will buy electric scooters to replace their cars.
also, anyone in china who can afford it buys a car, duh.
never mind that the typical daily commutes are way shorter in china, due to various reasons(mainly people not being able to afford cars in the first place).
you know whats actually amazing?
they created a system, with a limit of 140 characters, got huge numbers of users but running their system was still more expensive than what they could profit from the users - this despite the complexity of the system being simple as can get compared to contemporary facebook.
oh and if you're outside of usa and are wondering why the 140 character limit in the first place? well, twitter was originally like a one-liner webpage plugin, which was coded terribly but had a good amount of highly visible seed bloggers to start using it - but the limit came from that you could order tweets to your phone delivered via sms.
which was possible because USA had/has a system where you pay for received SMS so sending them was free for twitter - in most of the world sender pays for spam and receiving sms messages had always been free. this was in a timeframe where you could actually get instant messaging for few bucks a month already if you were living in europe(through gprs) too.
I say it was coded like shit because otherwise they would have been in profit from year 2 from all the webtraffic(and ads made possible by said webtraffic). also them spending money on useless marketing people and useless executives has had an effect on their poor profits vs. spent money. now the reason why it's all so ridiculous is that they had a fixed size limit on messages which was tiny - the server costs should have been miniscule but they weren't.
well if theres enough of an explosion of ID theft that makes their credit rating service useless.
I mean more useless, since those companies don't check that the debt exists anyways or that there's anybody with paperwork to back the debt up anyways.
the energy costs are a main factor, too.
in some places where it makes sense, people use small helicopters regularly(australia). even for herding cattle.
the real question to ask is when will the world get tired of dolts speaking about stuff that people have been speaking for 60+ years.
like.. singularity. it's been a theme in scifi since the forties.
do we have it? haha no and we don't even have a path to it. doesn't stop a lot of people making their entire living by talking about it. it's easy to sound smart if there's nothing discussed.
no.
really. no.
whats funny though is that us carriers still "clear" the phones.. ?? come on. if they're conforming to the standards there is no need for that.
basically.. the way hyperspace(used to) works in star wars is that you can't hyperspace through/into/near high mass objects like planets, suns and whatever. this makes it so that hyperspacing isn't simply a teleportation device, which would negate any usefulness of superweapons, large carriers, interdictors and whatever. you see back in the late 70's or 80's someone put some thought into this, unlike abrams.
okay.. ep1) the siege of naboo becomes irrelevant as you can just bypass it.
ep2 and ep3). okay.. these not so much, but their plotline is a continuation - and again, the nature of warfare would be drastically different if the hyperspace rules were changed.
ep4) might just as well have hyperspaced some bombs into either inside deathstar or on surface of the superweapon side. basically the whole concept of such a superweapon becomes obsolete.
ep5) the planetary shields would have been irrelevant, might just as well have hyperspaced into inside them.
ep6) might just as well have hyperspaced something into inside of deathstar 2.
ep7) might just as well have nuked the planet (transfer the nuke through hyperspace). also, prior to this, there are no "beams of whatever" shot through the space at ftl speeds at arbitrary distances. I mean, where the f is this secret moonbase? are _all_ the planets in ep7 in the _same_ solar system? just like earth is in the same system with klingon homeworld? I mean just how much more can the guy f up. it's like he is making parodies.
in r1 as well though, there is no distance. which is a problem with ALL abrams movies. he changes the scripts so that the distances make no sense at all and that there is no travel time to anywhere.
well if they were smart how did they know they were cheating?
of course, maybe cheating is "smart", even if it happens just by bribing the teacher. that's what a lot of asians believe anyways. they believe that the paper and the status from graduation is what matters. and for some, it is like that - they would do very well though if they just learned the stuff, but since their professors didn't take that route how could they?
what do you mean? thats just what happened.
however he/she who sold it should have been suspicious about selling it in the first place. why would you need to buy open source software? you wouldn't. what he was buying was the install base.
finlands best export market was soviet..
r1 was okay..
jj abrams however now has fucked plot sensibilities by screwing over several plot devices(by just being plain fucking stupid and inept at writing a plotline to fit the action he wants that wouldn't piss over everything) of TWO franchises.
he did it to star trek, he did it to star wars. and for those of not understanding what I'm talking about... force awakens provides a way to use hyperspace in a way that makes plotlines of pretty much all of the previous star wars movies irrelevant - and even force awakens itself!
the star trek reboot is full of gadgets that make the plotlines stupid, the traveltimes make NO SENSE at all and so forth. klingon homeworld is now literally 1 second or 15 minutes away, depending on your chosen mode of transportation. even fucking Q made more sense.
I mean other countries manage to do the important ballots with just plain pen and papers and multiple parties observe them.
why the country that prides on democracy has so few volunteers to make it? ..also why the fuck just 2 parties while at it...
well they need the surprise element so that even fanbois are reminded that the features already exist.
if it is already discussed in the media that the features exist, then the journalists have harder time putting up headlines like apple does it again or something.
really though, you can't tell the difference between iphone 6 and whatever their latest thing is.. like if you look at someone using it. it looks the same. nobody cares if it's the newest or not. thats the problem.
apple is already at a place where they need an actual low range phone and they don't want to do that, instead they sell 3 year old models with no future sw support as the low end phones.. that's not gonna cut it.
you can use a bunch of others like duckduckgo, bing, hotmaill.. ..
ehehehheheahahah.
anyways, most alternatives use google parts anyways. thats a bummer.
baseball has dedicated guys to do everything already.. they should just have mandatory rotation during the play.
and one could argue that the original rules of the game are stupid to begin with, because it leads to specialized pitchers, stupid hidden hand signals and all that. might just as well have the two guys talk over bluetooth really.
and that the hit percentages are so bad is also just a sign of the rules being pretty bad to begin with. Finnish baseball makes for a slightly more interesting game from a game perspective, but that one is pretty bad too, but does have less specialization and calling due to the pitching being straight up basically and therefore no catcher being necessary - and the pitcher can, and needs to, observe the field for what the runners are doing.
look, the 27 miles takes 1 hour due to traffic.
the obvious solution would be A NORMAL HIGH SPEED TRAIN as it is only 27 miles.
or a highway.
either way, both of them would be cheaper.. but musk is pitching it as cheaper than the train.
look, if you pay salaries and benefits you are in fact running a for-profit organization that has made it's job/profit center to publish that stuff.
since your and your underlings salaries can be just any sum you deem, it is quite useless to talk about any sum since you just deemed the cost of publishing to be any sum you want it to be, which is basically as much money as you can possibly get from everyone involved, which is then divvied up as salaries - so no matter how much you got sponsorship you would still need to ask more money.
so with that logic you could ask 10 dollars per article view or 10 000 dollars. it doesn't really matter - all of that money would still go into your organizations pockets as salaries.
publishing the stuff you want to publish is in fact very cheap. what you are arguing is that the process of deciding what to publish is not cheap, mainly because you need to oversee it and straight up pay money to people to review the papers, instead of finding people to review them for honor points or people who are already employed at universities just to review such stuff.
that you even mention hosting leads just to believe that you do that with someone who is also profiting from the affair, since the actual cost is tiny compared to even flight ticket for any attendee to the conference - and surely you have some sponsors or are asking attendees some money? note that cost of hosting goes up drastically if you need to pay some outsider to run a webshop to purchase your papers.
but here comes the real kicker, do you ask money from the people who want their papers published or from the people who want to read them? or both? I'm pretty sure that you should already know that the organization in spotlight of this article does both and the aim is to extract as much profit as possible, not to act on cost by any means.
you could do it cheaper of course, but that would mean someone losing their salary. maybe the janitor as the first one,
Elsevier is a huge profit center, don't kid yourself about it. it generates straight up profit and pays ridiculous salaries for jobs that could be done cheaper - and you, you're just working your way up to there.
the bigger problem in science community in general is that having it published in a "prestigious" journal is more important than what the paper itself has. literally 99.99% useless - even the published stuff. this is just result of the institutional fetish of publishing stuff even if you have in fact found or figured out nothing new and the result of the work would be much more useful to the world in general formatted differently as a post on blogspot, instead the 1 sentence of useful information is buried in 4 pages of paperspeak.
I mean, HYPERTEXT was arguably MADE for such texts and referenced information, to easily check out the referenced texts. so why is the scientific community still insisting that the system of publishing papers is good? because it provides the perfect circle jerk admittance?
I think the "logic" is that they own it as they had some "experts" check it(for a cheque)..
I would be more worried about this "it restrains "any Internet search engines, web hosting and Internet service providers, domain name registrars, and domain name registries, to cease facilitating access to any or all domain names and websites through which Defendant Sci-Hub engages in unlawful access to [ACS's works]." ".
are they making a blocklist now for USA? or are they going to enforce it on .com registry? or whatf the fuck - and would this be something to be quoted in the future.
the real way how those spam companies track, and how some even pay out, is by tracking purchases/conversion. no conversion = it is as if it didn't exist.
anyways, you can create false clicks but they wouldn't matter to anybody.
this same thing happens naturally as well, the price of the ads being determined by the value they give for the advertisers, the ads will just be cheaper to run per click in the same proportion there are fake clicks. it doesn't solve the problem that people are stupid enough to sign up to something, install something or to buy something advertised in such a way.
the real wonder is sites that have ACTUAL content but still put on so much ads that nobody comes back again or that are impossible(really) to browse without adblock as the ads forward the page to some stupid ad in 5 secs.